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Albrecht Dürer.
Self-Portrait.
1500.
Christ like stance (hair changed)
shows that you should live like christ, we are created in the image of god
Durer:
Huge Impact on N. Europe
originally a goldsmith
first to believe in genius of artists
Meticulous attention to detail (North)
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Albrecht Dürer.
Hare.
1502.
Watercolor
portays everyday life, which is unusual. Used live models
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Albrecht Dürer.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. 1497–1498.
woodcut (durer did not do, but did draw the sketch which was represented)
from the book of revelation
similair to temptation of St. Anthony
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Albrecht Dürer
Adam and Eve
did own engraving
evocative of italian art
Animals represent theory that bodily fluids controlled personality
mouse/serpent = satan
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Albrecht Dürer
Four Apostles
Openly professing his lutherism
placed peter in the background
john (lutheran fav.) in front
writing around frame warns of false prophets
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Lucas Cranach the Elder
Nymph of the Spring
rennaissance (contemporary)
compared to venus of orbino (classical)
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Hans Baldung Grien
Death and the Matron
The eye is drawn to the white skin, women is obviously thought skeleton was her lover until turned around
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West Wing of the CourCarrée
PalaisDu Louvre
updage to the Louvre
Renassaince ideals in a french style
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El Greco
Burial of Count Orgaz
Good works = salvation (orgaz is saint)
Clothing is contemporary (elizabethian)
2 different spaces created
son is in work, suggested Greco is to
El Greco:
Spanish influenced, influenced by mannerism and italian art
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Hieronymus Bosch
Garden of Earthly Delights (Open).
1505–1515
Center panel
Triptych
left: adam/eve, strange beasts, birds (associated with death)
middle: chaos, fruit (carnal pleasure), eggs (sex), rats (falsehood)
right: image of hell, disturbing
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Hieronymus Bosch
Garden of Earthly Delights (Closed)
earth at the moment of creation
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Pieter Aertsen
The Meat Stall
1551
Oil on panel
Pavilion - prodigal son
Flight to egypt in background, placing coin in beggars hand
Article:
-uncommon images, contemporary art of the 16th century
-oil painting is usually religious subject matter
-Something like this had never been used as subject matter before
-real estate scandal mentioned
-references contemporary Richard Hamilton (modern home), Andy Warhol, the tax collectors
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